[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: Design of Portal Deployer

[alesj]

"mwringe" wrote : 
  | I really don't like how this is working right now, its a hack. It's something that needs to be fixed. I will need to read up on how tlds work to see if it can done in a different manner (perhaps referencing the tld location in metadata instead of embedding it into the war).
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  | I took some time to look into the VFS, but couldn't figure out a way to make this work nicely. If anyone has any suggestions on how to add a file to a webapp during the deployment phase please speak up :)
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I guess once you have more TLD info we can discuss further.
Till then it would just be a guessing game. ;-)

"mwringe" wrote : 
  | But it does get a little tricky when the top deployment is the dependency of a child deployment, last I tried doing this it doesn' work as expected.
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Tricky how?
What about if you change the deployer hierarchy order?
e.g. setParentFirst == false

"mwringe" wrote : 
  | FYI, the manipulation of deployer order based on another deployer's order is also used in a few other deployers in AS5. 
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Where? To kick some butt ... :-)

"mwringe" wrote : 
  | And for the TLD deployer, I haven't figured out a clean way of implementing it yet.
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Np, we'll get there eventually. :-)

The nicest idea, and you already mentioned it, 
would be to get the current TLD recognition/lookup based on additional metadata path.
e.g. for JBP based deployments we would simply add default (container) metadata to each deployment,
which would hold the common/default tld, ... files

It just depends how much VFS/VDF exposure would be needed there.
e.g.1. lookup is done via some interface, we only provide the VFS/VDF based wrapper/impl
e.g.2. we completely replace the lookup with VFS/VDF
e.g.3 non of the above as it's completely un-plugable :-( ... as were Facelets



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